Debate Land Public Forum & Lincoln Douglas Rankings

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Debate Land is proud to offer comprehensive national circuit rankings for Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas debate. We believe that by providing comprehensive and transparent rankings, we can foster a more inclusive, legitimate, and competitive debate community. Debate Land uses a proprietary metric of ranking debaters colloquially known as the OTR Score. It awards points based on scaled tournament attendance, high performance (deep elimination round runs), and success against difficult opponents. Every system has flaws, but the OTR 3.0 Score is an open-source metric widely available to debaters.

Last Updated:

March 8, 2025


1) The first 500 teams are displayed. For full results, see Debate Land.
2) Read our methodology.
3) View results from past years.

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NSD Alumni represent 44 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debater

OTR

201

Victor Kang

0.853

202

Stanley Huang

0.846

203

Daniel Zheng

0.843

204

Daniel Lao

0.836

205

Serena Blutter

0.835

206

Julia Thomas

0.835

207

Margalit Salkin

0.828

208

Stanley Liu

0.825

209

Ruby Simon

0.822

210

Renee Ding

0.818

211

Oliver Zhang

0.815

212

Raghav Senthil Kumar

0.811

213

Nathan Ko

0.808

214

Advika Prakash

0.807

215

Cyris Lim

0.801

217

Yining Guo

0.797

218

Brendan Finnegan

0.795

219

Drew Benthein

0.794

220

Jessica Katz

0.793

221

Michael Reola

0.789

222

Aarav Mahendru

0.787

224

Daniel Baek

0.774

225

Christina Brown

0.773

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NSD Alumni represent 48 of the top 100 teams in the United States!

Rank

Team Code

Debaters

OTR

126

Lionel Augustine & Leonardo Damato

1.438

127

Helen Mancini & Astrid Harrington

1.437

128

Sameet Das & Atharv Mahajan

1.435

129

Rachel Sinaiko & Sofia Millerman

1.433

130

Christopher Lin & Yhali Matot

1.403

131

Audrey Yang & Christian Lee

1.402

132

Grant Morishita & Teddy Choe

1.391

133

James Yu & Junseo Lee

1.391

134

Kethan Neginhal & Preston Lieu

1.382

135

Keller Wagemann & Kidus Hiruy

1.377

136

Vaibhav Kolli & Ryan Pius

1.376

137

Sapna Annambhotla & Caleb Lee

1.367

138

Eli Chen & Rahul Rani

1.362

139

Alice Ma & Tony Liu

1.358

140

Sophia Xiong & Nishvith Sudhakar

1.352

141

Oliver Beamer & Aari Sabnani

1.350

142

Lander Bovenzi & Adrien Devery Michaelson

1.336

143

Chloe Huang & Lucas Kwok

1.298

144

Ryan Xie & Elizabeth Chung

1.282

145

Ryan Kang & Tobin Wilson

1.274

146

Sumith Murthy & Nathan Hadi

1.271

147

Ezra McCullers & Jared Bart

1.271

148

Parsa Hassanpour & Jessica Liao

1.269

149

Carlye Sanchez & Carter Nelson

1.266

150

Ila Misra & Simone Ginsberg

1.265

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